A new book shows DOGS of all shapes and sizes FLYING through the air – just like the bouncing boxer dog in the John Lewis Christmas advert.
Julia Christe, 43, has photographed more than 121 airborne canines, from tiny Chihuahuas to full-grown Siberian Huskies, in her book, Flying Dogs. The photographer spent two weekends taking hilarious pictures of a whole host of pups in mid-flight and the photos show the athleticism and freedom of dogs leaping in the air.
A gold prospector has found Britain’s biggest ever GOLD NUGGET, worth an estimated £50,000 and the size of a small chicken’s EGG, on a beach in Wales.
Vincent Thurkettle, 60, was stunned to see the incredible 97.12g (3oz) nugget of gold gleaming in a crevice on the sea bed off the coast of Anglesey. It is almost twice as heavy as the UK’s second biggest nugget, which was found in Cornwall more than 200 years ago in 1808 and weighed 59g. The nugget is believed to be part of a £120 million haul of gold which went down with the Royal Charter when it was shipwrecked during a hurricane in 1859.
British women are in the 2017 Dull Men’s Club calendar for the first time.
A manager of a PENCIL MUSEUM, crazy GOLF fanatic, PREFAB anorak, BARBED WIRE collector, mum with a RAILWAY STATION in her back garden, and a female who obsessively follows BROWN SIGNS are in this year’s calendar.
Until now only men have been in the annual calendar but Leland Carlson, assistant vice-president (the highest office) of the Dull Men’s Club, spent the past year travelling around Britain and found women with dull hobbies.
Alton Towers fans were left hanging and screaming for help for half an hour when its newest ride failed in heavy rain.
The group of 28 people were left stranded after virtual reality ride Galactica ground to a halt at the top of the first loop at around 2pm, witnesses said. A member of staff had to climb up to comfort them and calm them down after the rollercoaster, which opened in March, broke down during a heavy rain shower.
A photographer has taken stunning photos of the Red Arrows practicing in the skies as the sun set.
Claire Hartley took pictures of the planes flying over their base at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire as they returned to training after their Christmas break.
Sir David Attenborough has abseiled down a 13 METRE high living wall inside a new global conservation hub in Cambridge – just weeks before his 90th BIRTHDAY.
he daring 89-year-old presenter looked completely at ease as he dangled high in the air to gain a “plant’s eye view” of the special building, which he will officially open. The naturalist, who will turn 90 next month, carefully made his way down the amazing living wall in the atrium of the new campus, which is inside the David Attenborough Building at Cambridge University.
A photographer has captured the moment 46ft high waves struck Eshaness on the Shetland Islands.
Ryan Sandison took photos of the enormous waves hitting the coast of Eshaness, in the north-west of the islands, after Storm Connor hit Scotland on Boxing Day.
Socialite Olivia Tallent, whose dad plays in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, sent Twitter into meltdown after posting a picture with her “new boyfriend” – Prince Harry.
The pretty brunette, whose father Garry Tallent plays bass in the rock band, had her photo taken backstage with Prince Harry after he watched Springsteen’s concert at Wembley Stadium.
An inventor has built a giant Star Wars AT-ACT in his back garden. Colin Furze, 36, spent a month constructing the huge 5.5 metre tall Imperial Walker, which towers over his house in Stamford, Lincolnshire.
It has been built for his friend’s son Harvey Dunnett, eight, who is a massive Star Wars fan, and just in time for the launch of the new film, Rogue One. The enormous AT-ACT can move and is packed with working gadgets inside.
Extraordinary pictures have been revealed showing the caring side of Prince William as he went above and beyond the call of duty at work, comforting a patient and even travelling with him in the ambulance.
Photos show the Duke of Cambridge reassuring and comforting a patient after flying him to hospital in the air ambulance.
As co-pilot William is usually seen waiting in the helicopter cock-pit while his colleagues carry out the medical tasks. But this time it was the Duke who was the first to quickly jump out of the helicopter and pull the patient out on a stretcher after landing at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.
England is not set to have a white Christmas – but SNOW has fallen in the SAHARA desert for only the SECOND time in living memory.
Amateur photographer Karim Bouchetata took incredible pictures of snow covering the sand in the small Saharan desert town of Ain Sefra. He captured the amazing moment snow fell on the red sand dunes in the world’s largest hot desert for the first time in 37 YEARS.
Prince William enjoyed a school dinner of roast chicken and Cauliflower cheese as he stopped for a break between shifts with the East Anglian Air Ambulance.
The Duke of Cambridge was invited in to the school canteen at John Henry Newman School in Stevenage, Herts, after landing his helicopter in the grounds, which is close to the Lister Hospital. Students were stunned to see the Royal tucking into the school meal when they walked into the canteen at break time.
Coldplay have replaced the rock tradition of illuminating the stadium with lighters and mobile phones during big anthems by handing out radio-controlled GLOW BANDS.
The band gave out 20,000 of the multi-coloured glowing wrist bands to the audience for free when they played the O2 arena as part of their Mylo Xyloto tour. The innovative new bands are designed to light up and flash in time to the music during big numbers when people would previously have waved lighters or mobile phones.
A respected master at Cambridge University has warned students who “bully” freshers at drinking initiation ceremonies they could turn into “insider traders, exchange rate riggers and corrupt Volkswagen engineers.”
Professor Sir Alan Fersht, 72, has sent an email to all students at prestigious Gonville and Caius condemning second years who “pressured” freshers into drinking “shots of liquor until they vomited.” His email came after he claimed students at the annual Freshers Week pub crawl were caught on CCTV encouraging first years to drink shots as part of an initiation ceremony.
A photographer has taken a picture of a beautiful WHITE rainbow in the Scottish mountains.
Melvin Nicholson captured a stunning photo of a rare FOG BOW on Rannoch Moor whilst out walking.
Tourists enjoyed punting in Cambridge wearing T-SHIRTS as temperatures soared to 17C in England – just nine days before Christmas.
Punting companies have often been forced to close in December as the River Cam ices over, but this year tours along the historic Backs are in full swing as the UK is unseasonably mild.
Experts at the Met Office said parts of England would see temperatures of 17C today – more than double the normal average of 7.2C and not far from the December record of 18.3C set in Scotland in 1948.
Rock star Bruce Springsteen did the CONGA around the AccorHotels Arena in Paris after a fuse blew and the concert was plunged into darkness for 20 minutes.
The singer and four of his E Street Band entertained fans by dancing through the packed arena during a power cut in the middle of the show. Springsteen was singing his hit Ramrod when a fuse blew and the arena lost all lighting and sound. The emergency lighting came back on after a few minutes, but there was no sound for 20 minutes as the crew tried to get the power working again.
The DULLEST men in Britain, including a TRAIN STATION spotter, VACUUM CLEANER collector and a HANDSAW enthusiast, are featured in a new book.
A golf ball collector, folly fan, mountain measurer and a man who has kept a diary of each time he has mown the lawn for 30 years also appear in the Dull Men of Great Britain book. Last year The Dull Men’s Club produced a calendar with pictures of its 12 most mundane members.
An amateur photographer has amazingly tracked down people he snapped on the streets of his hometown almost 40 YEARS ago and painstakingly recreated 134 PICTURES in a remarkable new book.
Paramedic Chris Porsz spent hours walking around the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire in the late 1970s and 80s, taking candid shots of punks and policemen, siblings and sweethearts, traders and teenagers. Three decades later, Chris, known as the “paramedic paparazzo,” decided it would be fun to reconstruct a handful of his favourite photos from the past.
Punters looked prepared for a weekend of sun and thunderstorms as they arrived at the 20th V Festival in Essex wearing shorts and wellies.
Punters looked prepared for a weekend of sun and thunderstorms as they arrived at the 20th V Festival in Essex wearing shorts and wellies. Festival-goers at both Hylands Park in Chelmsford and Weston Park in Staffordshire can expect mixed weather, with top temperatures of 31C expected in the UK tomorrow and the possibility of severe thunderstorms.